An equation of state for hydrogen fluoride

Using a similar approach as Lencka and Anderko [AIChE J. 39 (1993) 533], we developed an equation of state for hydrogen fluoride (HF), which can correlate the vapor pressure, the saturated liquid and vapor densities of it from the triple point to critical point with good accuracy. We used an equilibrium model to account for hydrogen bonding that assumes the formation of dimer, hexamer, and octamer species as suggested by Schotte [Ind. Eng. Chem. Process Des. Dev. 19 (1980) 432]. The physical and chemical parameters are obtained directly from the regression of pure component properties by applying the critical constraints to the equation of state for hydrogen fluoride. This equation of state together with the Wong–Sandler mixing rule as well as the van der Waals one-fluid mixing rule are used to correlate the phase equilibria of binary hydrogen fluoride mixtures with HCl, HCFC-124, HFC-134a, HFC-152a, HCFC-22, and HFC-32. For these systems, new equation of state with the Wong–Sandler mixing rule gives good results.